CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000)

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is an American crime drama television series that premiered in October 2000. The series follows Las Vegas criminalists as they use physical evidence to solve all sorts of murders and crimes.

The network later added spin-offs CSI: Miami and CSI: NY.

I think CSI can come across as geeky in the sense that someone enjoys it because they are interested in all the Sci-fi action. Shows like these can also inspire viewers to want do something similar as a career. In each episode you see the investigators undergo dealing with all kinds of crime and murder cases, some of which you would need a strong stomach for.

Media theories

Cohen

• Society as presently structured will continue to present problems for some of its members
• The media over-reacts to an aspect of behaviour
• People who supposedly threat social order folk devils

Stuart Hall

• Identity is ambiguous 
• Identity is problematic
• The invisible nature of ideology 
• Other 
• Media seems to reflect but in fact they construct it
• Audiences read texts differently, some accept, some negotiate, some reject

Althusser

• We are already subjects, and as such constantly practise the rituals of ideological recognition
• The social practise of mis recognising themselves based on a consciousness
• The power of mass media recites in their ability too

Defleur

• The more one depends on the media, the more media will be important to someone
• The media has selective influences on people

Neale

• Genre are instances of repetition and differences 

Judith Butler

• Identity is performed through your expression
• Gender is what you do, not what you are

Foucault

• Identity is a shifting temporary contruction

Classwork

Defleur: "The media has selective influences on people."

• Young people growing up with certain media around them
• Media may influence them to be geeky about something (Sci-fi, video games, internet) 

Judith Butler: "Identity is performed through your expression."

• Geeks/Nerds can show their passion for something that isn't so popular with everyone else, which makes people associate them with geeks
• If someone is intelligent towards something e.g. computers, maths etc, they are going to express this knowledge and gradually this can form some way of representing their identity.

Problematic quote: "Media seems to reflect reality but in fact they construct it."

This quote appears to me as a problematic way of believing something. I agree with it partially, as the media does construct a lot of what happens in reality today. Whether it's youth or adults for example, the media has created many different ways of representing both generations, and the majority of which will be seen as stereotypes. The more the media creates that is based on these particular representations, the more the audience is going to reflect off them and influenced into certain ways.